Baffral , James, a prolific statistical writer, baptized at Strasburg on Christmas Day, 1859; his wife ( née Levy ) and five children two years later.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Ἴασπις, ιδος, ἡ, jasper, a precious stone of various colours as purple, cerulean, green, &c. Re. 4.3; 21.11, 18, 19.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

The King also thought that this was both just and proper, so he sent five of his best men down to the gilded hut, to greet the maiden courteously from the King, and to beg her to be so good as to come up to the palace to dinner at mid-day.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

I was so intoxicated with the honor of which I had been the recipient, that on reaching our lines I uttered a shout of joy and put spurs to my horse.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Membership in many athletic associations may be had by walking in and paying dues; also many country golf-clubs are as free to the public as country inns; but joining a purely social club of rank and exclusiveness is a very different matter.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The Freudian psychology is based on the doctrine of the "wish," just as physical science is based, today, on the concept of function.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I have yet cheerful hopes that Heaven will not suffer me to die degraded by any other debts than those which it ever has been, and ever will be, my joy and pride still to pay and still to owe; those of a truly grateful heart, and to you among the first of those to whom they are due.
— from Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Jersey , Albert Pier, St. Helier; one fixed light ( gas ), visible 3 miles; erected 1839.
— from Lighthouses and Lightships A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and Organization by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

Just a plain, stout, fozy, sappy burrow-man, keeping a gospel shop, with scarcely so much of a man’s parts as will let him fend a blow in the face.
— from John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro

Thus the kings of earth departed;—Bhima in his joy and pride, Solemnized the stately bridals—of the maiden and the king.
— from Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems by Henry Hart Milman

"I'm supplied just at present," said the young man.
— from Sam's Chance, and How He Improved It by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Silence and passion, joy and peace, ...... Such life there, through such lengths of hours, Such miracles performed in play, Such primal naked forms of flowers, Such letting Nature have her way."
— from Of Walks and Walking Tours: An Attempt to find a Philosophy and a Creed by Arnold Haultain

The Boomers who'd camped with them had already gone their separate ways, but Jed and Pete still slept.
— from We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run by Jim Kjelgaard

Mr. Park and the two negroes then resumed their journey, and passed several large villages, where the former was constantly taken for a Moor, and with his horse, which he drove before him, afforded much mirth to the Bambarrans.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish

C. L. Jones + Am Pol Sci R 12:132 F ‘18 450w “Dr Westergaard brings every element of knowledge, scientific training and personal sympathy necessary to the task he has set himself.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

[Ps. 38:18, Jer. 31:19, Gal. 2:16, Acts 4:12, Matt. 5:6, Rev. 21:6] Now, according to the strength or weakness of his faith in his Saviour, so is his joy and peace, so is his love to holiness, so are his desires to know him more, and also to serve him in this world.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan